Combining medical and historical information with real life accounts of ordinary women, this book is an essential guide to the facts, feelings and emotions experienced during pregnancy and birth. It takes you week by week, from the decision to conceive, through to first impressions of life with your baby, offering invaluable information.

Topics include: Conception - If and When; Feelings for Your Growing Baby; Your Career and Financial Position; Fear that Something May Go Wrong; Changing Relationships with Family and Friends; Choosing Where and How to Give Birth; How Others Felt - Women Relate their Experiences; The First Few Days with Your Baby

From the bestselling author of Labyrinth and the co-founder of the Orange Prize, comes a new edition of her first book - Becoming a Mother, a wonderful companion to the process of creating a new life.

About the Author
Kate Mosse is the author of three works of non-fiction, three plays and six novels, including the No.1 multi-million international bestselling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel -published to outstanding reviews and sold in more than 40 countries throughout the world in 38 languages. Her standalone novel, The Winter Ghosts, was also a No.1 bestseller, confirming her position as one of our most captivating storytellers. Her collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Ghostly Tales, was published in Autumn 2013. In recognition of her services to literature, Kate was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2013.

Reviews
A really good and reassuring read. Highly recommended * Mail on Sunday *
Sensible advice on pain relief, midwives and Vitamin K is interspersed with tips on surviving hospital cuisine . . . * Independent *
Written in a very personal way . . . If you're a first time mother and looking for a companion to get you through your pregnancy, this should be for you * Irish Independent *



Book Information
ISBN 9780349004808
Author Kate Mosse
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 41g